by Mwandi M.

Created on: May 08, 2009

Our Pastor tells us the story on how he became a pastor. He was a very eager, business minded individual during his high school and varsity days. He didn't know what he was going to do with his life; all he knew was that he wanted to be rich. When he was in high school, he asked his father which profession made the most money? His father unwittingly replied pharmacy. Eager and determined, my pastor started on the path leading him to be a pharmacist.

As he graduated from university, his pastor told him, Perhaps you should consider doing our internship. Flabbergasted, he responded as all youth respond to religious leaders when presented with overwhelming information, I'll pray about it. Of course, not really intending to, but eventually, compelled by his girlfriend's desire to participate in the same internship, he joined the pastor internship at his church.

10 years later, he's a pastor making waves in church in East Africa; and he's challenging us, this month of May on daring to dream God's dream for you. What is God's dream for us? What is God's dream for me? What was the reason God created you? What was the reason God created me? Why did he dream me up, implant me in my mother's womb, guide me through my life and lead me to the point I am today? What is the purpose of my being, and is it the same idea I have for my life?

In daring to dream God's dream for myself, my pastor advises to let go of the ideas I had for myself. For whatever dream I have for myself, can not closely compare to the dream and the purpose he has for me. And this dream that God has for me, I already know snippets and ideas of it. He has planted the seeds of His Dream in me, and they manifest in the passion I have for something in this world; for my desire that something was different, my desire to make a change, to make a difference.

Finding your life purpose, as my pastor advises, is not a glamorous journey. It is a journey fraught with fear, doubts, misconceptions, misgivings and the overwhelming desire to retreat, give up and return to your small dream. But if one never fully realizes their life's purpose, then one may never truly be living.

It starts with daring to dream God's Dream for you. This is the alignment of your dream to His plans so that everything may fall into plan just as he knows it will for you. It involves trusting that He will not lead you down a difficult path that He is unable to lead you out of. It may mean allowing yourself to be ridiculed, outcast, and in the extreme case, martyred to be part of God's plan. It may mean leading a life you had no intention of leading because you are following God's plan. Knowing and trusting in Him to guide you through all stormy situations and rewarding you with a life so sweet, you wonder why you doubted in the first place.

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